Seeing this todayreminded me of a relatively obscure feature and counter-feature in xterm and similar imitators like gnome-terminal and konsole.

First, the feature (sometimes 'feature'): in order to let text modeprograms still have clickable objects, xterm lets programs steal leftmouse (button-1) clicks; instead of selecting text, the program getsescape sequences that tell it about the click and it can do whatever itwants with them. The most obvious application is text-mode web browserslike links

This is one of those entries that require some apparently irrelevantbackground.

The Atom syndication feed format requires that each entry have a uniqueidentifier assigned to it (the atom:id element, to use XML jargon).This identifier is a valid URI, formed using any number of schemes(see here ). DWiki (the software behind WanderingThoughts ) initially used the fullURL of entries as the Atom ID, because this required no additionalconfiguration or per-entry metadata. However, this causes seriousproblems if you ever

Through my experiences over the past while, I've come around to theview that you should try to have code reviews for sysadmin shellscripts. There's two reasons for this, and they both have to do withthe fact that the Bourne shell is not really a programming language .

First, you want code reviews so that other people can convince you thatyour clever Bourne shell idioms are a little too clever. People's tastesand standards for this vary widely, and you're writing scripts not